ukraine william taylor, and the former american ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch. today house intelligence committee chair adam schiff saie that questioning will go a long way toward building the case ng against the president. you will see throughout the course of the testimony, not he only their testimony but many on others, the most important facts are largely not contested. we are getting an increasing we appreciation for just what took place during the course of the last year and the degree to o which the president enlisted whole departments of government in the illicit aim of trying to get ukraine to dig up dirt on a political opponent as well as further conspiracy theories l about the 2016 election. today we got something of a preview of what to expect from bill taylor s public testimony with the release of his closed-door transcript from october 22nd. f the vietnam war veteran and
they can say, even the president s bought and paid for ambassador pick, even that guy has come around to acknowledge the obvious truth of the matter, plus you get the pleasure of looking at donald trump s tweet from october 22nd, the ambassador to the european union has testified, he said there was no quid pro quo, he said the president had told him that. that is the president of the united states a couple weeks ago. that is now inoperative too. the benefits of having sondland s testimony line up to getting him off the side of being the one contradictory, the outliar is way more important he s not going to be a good witness. but this guy was never going to be the witness you wanted to make your case, anyway, in public. just to pull the michael cohen testimony, the original testimony, that transcript was released today. that was the occasion for the update. and from the original testimony, sondland is clearly another
taylor referenced him throughout his own testimony in which taylor raised serious concern that aid had been when would by the president. the president was pushing for those investigations into his political rivals. in the statement that section we obtained from the statement today it says in the preparation for my appearance today, i reviewed the statement ambassador taylor provided this inquiry on october 22nd, 2019. i can confirm that the substance of the statement as it relates to conversations he and i had is accurate. now he goes on to say there are some differences, two small differences, one of which is he recalls a conversation he had with the eu ambassador, gordon sondland in which sondland said it would be sufficient for president trump to release security aid it s sufficient to the pursue investigations by ukraine if that announcement for the investigations were made by the ukrainian prosecutor, not president zelensky as taylor testified last week. that s a pretty minor
for our u.s. viewers, another key witness in the impeachment probe heads to capitol hill very shortly. new day continues right now. the president of the united states should be allowed to run the country, not have to focus on this kind of crap. the process for impeaching a president is in the constitution. i think he is lashing out at anything and now he s lashing out at the constitution. this is lacking legitimacy and credibility. the vast majority of the republicans in the house in a private vote, would vote to impeach him. we didn t guarantee the kurds safety for the next 1,000 years but we absolutely told them we d protect them. we have a crisis of confidence in this country and it s one we have to change. this is new day with alisyn camerota and john berman. good morning. welcome to your new day, tuesday, october 22nd. 8:00 in the east. and this could be a very important day in the impeachment
is that the most universal song on the planet? 3.2 billion hits. that scared the little kid there initially. thank you for joining us. i m christine a new cnn poll on impeachment just out this morning. the president of the united states should be allowed to run the country, not have to focus on this kind of crap. this is lacking legitimacy, credibility and fairness. the vast majority of the republicans in the house in a private vote would vote to impeach him. we never agreed to protect the kurds for the rest of their lives. we didn t guarantee the kurds safety for the next thousand years but we absolutely told them we would protect them. we have a crisis of confidence in this country, and it s one that i think we have to change. this is new day with alisyn camerota and john berman. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is new day. it is tuesday, october 22nd,